Faisal Mekdad was named as the new foreign minister of Syria, a decree signed by President Bashar Assad revealed on Sunday.
Mekdad will take over the ministry after 79-year-old minister, Walid Muallem, passed away earlier this week. The new top Syrian diplomat was a deputy foreign minister...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the issue of United States withdrawal from Syria over the phone on Friday, according to the Kremlin press service.
"The discussion focused on developments in Syria, including in light of the United States’...
Saudi Arabia has nothing against reinstating Syria back in the Arab League, the local media reported on Friday, citing a diplomat close to the matter. According to the press, the kingdom made its stance known to the league's other member states.
The move comes after Syria was expelled from the...
Russian Ministry of Defense warned that the ceasefire agreement in the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria is continually violated by armed groups.
"Over the past day, they attacked Ruseyt Iskander (three times), Nahshabba, Jubb al-Zazur in Latakia province, and settlement al-Salyumiya in Hama...
North Korea denied reports that it has been providing Syria with materials that can be used to manufacture chemical weapons and added it has not developed nor produced them.
"As had been elucidated several times, the DPRK does not have a single record of developing, producing and...
Washington and Ankara have agreed to improve bilateral relations which are at a “critical stage,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (pictured left) said Friday. Two ministers agreed in Ankara to establish a mechanism to deal with open issues between...
"It is natural that Russia is an important partner in the process of reconstruction", Syrian president Bashar al-Assad (pictured) stated on Monday. After meeting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin in Damascus, he welcomed the United Nations' role in the peace process and said oversight of...
French President Emmanuel Macron said he believes the Islamic State will be crushed in Syria by February and called the Syrian government and opposition to begin a new round of peace talks early next year.
"We have just won the war in Iraq with the coalition and I believe that by the middle to...
A bus rigged with explosives blew up on Tuesday in the Syrian city of Homs. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, stated, "At least eight people died when a mini-bus exploded on the edge of the Akrama neighborhood." State television reported that 15 people were injured....
Dozens of refugees were killed and injured in a car bombing carried out by the Islamic State group in the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, media reported. Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the attack targeted the largest refugee gathering in the region and that “large numbers of women and...
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